Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical students. 540 postgraduate doctors. In Lying-in-Hospital, where babies are kept in glass cubicles to protect them from infection, 2,881 babies were born last year. Of them only 62 babies died. Death came to only 15 mothers at Lying-in. No other busy maternity hospital on earth can meet that record for low mortality. Dr. DeLee holds his death rate down by compelling pregnant women who have any infection to have their babies in a building widely separated from his regular maternity rooms. He also avoids maternal deaths by forbidding "meddlesome midwifery." He always waits...
...combined. His eyesight, hearing, memory and intelligence were excellent to the end. He lived a useful and active life until the end." Of her late mate's guardians, says Mrs. Lowe: "Our Government in Washington is the best organized and greatest band of super-gangsters and criminals on earth. They stop at nothing where there is a dollar in sight...
Their calculations at present indicate for the body an "open parabolic" course around the sun, which apparently never gets nearer the solar star than 93,000,000 miles or the distance from earth...
...average about six comets a year come within range of the earth's telescopes. This one is now 120,000,000 miles away. Latest Observatory figures show it has increased in brightness from ninth to eighth magnitude since the initial recording Friday, and by the end of July, before beginning to recede, will be brighter than the sixth magnitude and within 20,000,000 miles of terra firma...
...Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over"). And she was not slow to compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch very nauty but the French are really bad the worst...